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From CNet:

"A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that Microsoft need not pay damages to Alcatel-Lucent in a long-running patent dispute in a case that could have opened up a broad range of litigation over the MP3 music format."

Sky News is reporting that a woman has been fined £16k for illegal file sharing.

The Jammie Thomas case - $222,000 damages for copyright infringement of 24 songs on P2P networks - was back in court yesterday.

Blackboard and Desire2Learn have been back in court. The former asked for the latter to be held in contempt because the changes to its software to comply with the court's previous order to that effect are not to Blackboard's liking.